If you've got an electronic device, you need power either in the form of a cable or a battery. If you've got a battery, you still need a means of charging it. And if you're in the military, you know that you never have exactly what you need exactly when you need it. Which
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Relax, David Bowie: in all likelihood there is life on Mars. Unfortunately for those of us hoping to find organic life forms thriving elsewhere in our solar system, there's a reasonably good chance the microbial life we might someday find on Mars was put
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If information is power, then encryption is the key to the kingdom. Last week Toshiba tested a quantum broadband link so secure it's theoretically unbreakable. Now a researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney has devised an even more sophisticated
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A thin film of water ice and organic materials coats the space rock named 24 Themis, according to a study released today. That discovery marks the first-ever direct detection of water ice on an asteroid, and adds evidence to theories about how asteroids could have brought
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It's one thing to tell someone how you feel, but seeing is believing. So their inability to see the face and body language of other people can potentially leave visually impaired people
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Micro-supercapacitors could enable future geeks to go longer without recharging their smartphones or computers. Researchers have developed a way to build the energy-storing supercapacitors by using microfabrication methods similar to those which create microchips for electronic
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Doomsdayers and 2012 blog-keepers, take note. Astronomers at this week's American Astronomical Society meeting revealed that a massive white dwarf star in the throes of multiple nova is much closer to our solar system than once thought. When it does finally collapse
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DARPA has requested the private sector's help in developing a lot of technologies once thought possible only in sci-fi novels, and they may have just jumped the shark in that regard. The DoD's future tech wing has issued a call for a
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Tagging trees with embedded RFID tags not only helps logging companies keep track of the origin and destination of timber on the truck, but it helps keep companies honest and aids in the prosecution of illegal logging operations. But those RFID chips, unless they're expensively
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Genetically engineered mosquitoes could even spread genes to other insects
As carriers for diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever, mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on the planet, responsible for millions of human deaths every year. And as the planet
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Russia's oil reserves have given the nation considerable political muscle, but Russian leaders also want to resurrect some scientific grandeur. Now they hope to build its first scientific city since the Berlin Wall came down, and they're looking to California's Silicon Valley for inspiration,
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A more powerful magnetic material may have emerged to topple previous record-holder iron cobalt, until now the most magnetic material on Earth. The new iron and nitrogen compound might also force physicists to revise their understanding of magnetism, according to the Minnesota
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The problem with surveillance cameras is that they can see but they can't think, which means there always has to be a human on the other end making cognitive sense of what's right in front of the camera. But if we meshed machine vision with visual intelligence,
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It's been a tough couple of weeks for the world's two premier builders of large commercial jets. An Airbus A380, the new crown jewel in Airbus's fleet, suffered an engine
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Science has recently confirmed what many women may have long suspected: the male habit of comparing attributes to impress a potential sexual partner can be traced to the Stone Age and beyond.
Several prehistoric creatures, including one of our own distance ancestors, developed elaborate
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Radar is great for tracking objects in the wide-open sky or even at sea, but when you try to take it to street level you run into some obstacles -- literally. Radar requires a good line of sight, and obstructions like buildings or terrain features can render radar useless.
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Waterskiing is so passé. This summer, you'll be able to fly with Raymond Li's water-powered jetpack, which is going on sale in March. It's only $99,500!
The JetLev jetpack
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DARPA didn't reveal much at first about its "Transformer TX" program aimed at developing a flying car for the military. But now the full proposal has been published, and shows that the Pentagon agency hopes to get a prototype airborne by 2015, The
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory helped discover two merging black holes a mere 3,000 light years apart
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You?ve seen the theory, now you can see the practical side
Earlier this week we brought you the
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A peripheral improvement to iPhone battery life, but at what cost?
For those of us who
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The harvest moon--which came a couple weeks late this year, on Oct. 4--has long allowed farmers
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Integral Energy learns the hard way why it?s important to keep antivirus software up to date
Doubtlessly,
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Impressive Logitech Guitar Hero ?instruments? ship with an equally impressive cost
It?s
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The public is disappointed by lack of flashy impact debris from NASA's lunar impactors, but scientists remain elated
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Now you can use mobile internet with multiple devices
Connecting to the internet
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Expand your Blu-ray library and support a worthy cause
The hairy-upper-lip festivities that
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What better way to let the world know how much you love games?
In Australia, gaming
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